The Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services

Exhibition Label:"NetWorks: Art and Artists from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection," Mar-2011, Susan Earle, Stephen Goddard, and SMA Interns“The reason the paintings are monochromatic is that I like a minimalist approach to image and color,” explains artist Daryl Trivieri. Other than their restrained palettes, the Spencer works are markedly complex, where the artisthas combined freehand airbrush painting with surface drawing and scratching to create fragile and otherworldly dreamscapes. Trivieri’s interest in 19thcentury photographs and resistance to the photorealism of the 1970s comes across in the unfinished appearance of his works. This does not mean that the artist is disinterested in the natural world. In fact, Trivieri’s affinity for scientific illustration is revealed in the layered imagery of a tree stump, the fossil-like remains of what could be a prehistoric fish, a disembodied hand, an insect casing, and a grainy representation of a wading bird.